Venturing

Examples

• I did not say she was as beautiful as you are, said Mr. Ned, venturing to look from the portrait to its rival. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But having risked discovery by venturing here at all, I should have been glad to track some part of the way. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Because they are always afraid of venturing out of sight of the land. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Guardian, said I, venturing to put my hand, which was suddenly colder than I could have wished, in his, nothing! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I admired your resolution very much, sir, said he, in venturing out in such weather, for of course you saw there would be snow very soon. Jane Austen. Emma.
• On the fourth day, venturing out early a little too far, I saw twenty or thirty natives upon a height not above five hundred yards from me. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• She had excused herself from the walk on the plea of a headache: the horrid headache which, in the morning, had prevented her venturing to church. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Emanuel: I not yet much shaken, sitting down, and venturing to resume my work. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• That's the way to talk, my dear,' replied Fagin, venturing to pat him on the shoulder. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I saw no inhabitants in the place where I landed, and being unarmed, I was afraid of venturing far into the country. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I had warned them against venturing far from the plaza for fear of the great white apes, whose ferocity I was only too well acquainted with. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• And so venturing not to say another word, poor Jemima trotted off, exceedingly flurried and nervous. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She peered about, before venturing into the booking-office to take her ticket. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• My means were very limited--so limited as to preclude the possibility of constructing an apparatus of such mechanical finish as to warrant my success in venturing upon its public exhibition. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Did I, do you suppose, reader, contemplate venturing again within that worthy priest's reach? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• There stood a clock in the classe below: what hindered me from venturing down to consult it? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

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